Date: 10 Nov 1999 08:21:49 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Group problems Message-ID: <rd6n1smh47m.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: Mark Ovens's message of Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:10:30 %2B0000 References: <99110818305400.00416@machine.beastie.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911081025190.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <19991109231030.A980@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes: > Hmm, didn't know that. Why, though? reboot(8) can't be run as a > normal user and the only difference I can see between the two is > that shutdown(8) broadcasts a "System going down" warning. Is this > just an historical thing or is there a more subtle reason? shutdown has several extra features: it allows you to schedule the reboot for a point in the future, it writes those warnings to users' terminals, and it tries to get init to shut down other processes before it actually stops it. The last one is a good enough reason to *always* use shutdown in multiuser mode unless you have a good reason not to. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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